Sherlock v. Bainbridge’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2018
1 district · 10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on The People v. . the Canal Appraisers · State v. Horton · Gentile v. State · Rice v. Ruddiman · Inhabitants of East-Haven v. Hemingway
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he right to navigate the river as a public highway includes, necessarily, the right to stop where the purposes of such navigation require it, for a reasonable length of time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“riparian ownership does not carry with it the right to the exclusive and unrestricted use of the lands ordinarily covered by the water.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must in all cases be subordinate to the paramount public right of navigation, and such other public rights as may be incident thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.